This is the second hippie to flower this spring, a nice Night Star:

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I only have one of these, but do have 3 or 4 Lima, a cybister variety which I prefer for its colour and elegance, pictured here from last year:

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I have tried several times to get seed by crossing Limas, but they never take, maybe because they could be offsets from the same parent plant. I did manage to get seeds to form from Lima x Night Star crosses though, and now for the first time one of these is about to flower:

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Lima seem to flower at odd times, rather unpredictably, but it looks as though this Lima x Night Star cross will flower at the same time as both Lima and Night Star plants, so I hope I can get Lima x (Lima x Night Star) seed, which will hopefully look more like the original Lima.